Russians have 143 million people. We have 329 million. China has 1.2 BILLION. Trump is very wisely triangulating China with our friends in Russia. We need each other.
Naval warar is not a game of chess. In modern warfare it will matter little how many or how big your pieces are or even where they are deployed. With modern technology and novel weapons, virtually all big capital ships are floating coffins.
This is something that requires a lot of training a experience. Having conned a destroyer alongside the Sacremento at night in the Tonkin Gulf it takes a lot of practice and a crew that knows what to in the dark with a sea running. It was really the highlight of my naval career.
This sort of thing should be tied directly to OBAMA and his stewardship as phony president. Can you impeach a president who is no longer in office or does he have to be tried for TREASON?
I’ll believe a Chinese Unrep when I see one.
It’s the most complicated seamanship.
Fleet tankers are prime targets as they spend much time away from the fleet.
Worth pointing that no real comparison can be made between a carriers that use a steam-launch over flat-deck system (US, UK, France) with those that use aircraft power up a up canted-deck system (Russia, China, India).
Planes that rely on their own power to launch cannot carry as much fuel nor as many weapons as those steam-launched, since they use a good bit of their fuel just getting into the air. This makes that type of carrier more a localized defensive weapon than a platform from which to launch long range attacks.
What the Chinese are gaining is experience, but not all of that will apply when they finish their new indigenous carrier using a steam-launch system.